What was it like to be YOU 1 minute ago? (psychology experiment)

[Ginsan]

Can you even recall? I can't. Even if I am in almost the exact same circumstance as I was a minute ago, I can't do it. I've been asking myself this question: "What was it like to be me ..... ago?", and often the answer was "I don't know...", and I found that fascinating. What are your thoughts? I encourage you to try this a few times a day. It's interesting to change how far you look back. Asking "what was I like 1 year ago?" may not be very useful because you probably can't recall that far back, and asking about 1 second ago is also not very useful because the difference is too small to notice, but 1 minute is pretty good. So it has to be close enough to have some idea of what it was like, and far enough into the past to be able to think about the difference. You might call this the optimal interval. And when you get an idea, a feel, of what it was like, you might be astonished or intrigued by how little you can relate to your previous self. You could ask things like "what thoughts were racing through my mind?", and "why was I thinking that?", "how did I feel about .....?". There are also different versions of this. For example you could do X and then stop doing X and 30 minutes later wondering what your state of mind was when you were doing X. You could wonder what you will be like when doing a certain activity, writing it down, doing the activity and seeing if you were right. The experiment part was very sloppy so I deleted it, but I might rewrite it later on with more clarity and add some things and change some things. Basically I was talking about how you could do experiments and what interesting things you can expect, and some other things. But for now I will just leave you with the question. Which I hope will arouse the excitement of many of you = )